NOUN
- movement in the United States beginning in the 1960s and led primarily by Blacks in an effort to establish the civil rights of individual Black citizens
How To Use Civil Rights movement In A Sentence
- We are the vanguard of the new civil rights movement.
- We look back now, to the civil rights movements and the female suffrage movements and hold our head in shame at the thought that it took us too long to grant these rights.
- Unemployment was high despite the gains of the civil rights movement.
- The decision was a springboard for the growing civil rights movement in the United States.
- War and the civil rights movement gave her a purpose, and that when they came to an end she was left floundering. Times, Sunday Times
- Perhaps the greatest contribution of establishmentarianism in American history was to set its seal on the civil rights movement. Philocrites: August 2008 Archives
- She was referring to the high-minded dreams of young women who had come of age in a time when people walked on the moon, joined the Peace Corps, led the civil rights movement. Big Girls Don’t Cry
- By 1969 the civil rights movement was already an established fact .
- So I do equate (not "conflate") Johnson and Bond in this context: Some Black "prominent" people (some of them from the civil rights movement era) have seemingly found it difficult to break away from the (hopefully, now past) paternalistic relationship carved out with "the Clintons" over time. NAACP Head To DNC: Seat Florida And Michigan Delegations
- He hopes to see the gains achieved by the U.S. civil rights movement, and maybe even a vision of ideal universal equality, reflected in the visionary future of the Federation.
